The international HE revolution - Impacts on mobility, qualifications, networks

PRESS RELEASE: The Observatory and Google link up for conference: The international HE revolution - Impacts on mobility, qualifications, networks.
London 11/12 December 2013 
Senate House, University of London Regent’s University London
The Observatory on Borderless Higher Education (obhe.ac.uk) will share its conference with Google on 11 - 12 December , who will announce a new initiative on the opening day. The UK’s minister for higher education David Willetts will address the second day of the conferen ce. Key contributors include Pearson’s Chief Education Advisor Sir Michael Barber and senior HE professionals from around the world. 
The conference, presented in association with Laureate, OC&C and The UK HE International Unit is entitled ‘The internation al higher education revolution: Impacts on mobility, qualifications, networks’. It will be held at Senate House, University of London, and at Regent’s University London. The conference takes as its starting point current developments in online learning and explores how they may impact on three aspects of international higher education: student mobility, how qualifications are gained, and international partnerships and networks. 
Keynote speakers are: Sir Michael Barber (Chief Education Advisor at Pearson), Rt Hon David Willetts MP (Minister for Universities & Science), and Professor Nigel Thrift (Vice - Chancellor at the University of Warwick).
Speakers include: Conrad Bird (Foreign Office & GREAT Britain Campaign), David Black (Google UK), Professor Sir Dru mmond Bone ( Balliol College, Oxford), Sam Brenton (Academic Partnerships), Carolyn Campbell (QAA), Professor Aldwyn Cooper (Regent’s University), Eva Egron - Polak (IAU), Dr Stephan Geifes (DAAD), Tim Gore OBE (University of London International Programmes), Dr Joe Hong (HKCAAVQ), Mark Jeynes (OC&C Consultants), Dr Fernando León - Garcia (CETYS University, Mexico), Professor Dato’ Hassan Said (Taylor’s University, Malaysia), and Dr Dirk van Damme (OECD). 
The programme is here and registration form is here.